Orange County, North Carolina Wills

The purpose of this collection of wills was to support the research needed to
write the book entitled
Families of Saint Mary’s Episcopal Chapel, Orange County, North Carolina.
I am posting these in the hopes that others will use the information to further
their own research. There are also many names of slaves that will be of
interest to African-American researchers delving into the lives of their
enslaved ancestors.

To that end, you may freely use this information and the images found here
in any way that you deem proper. I am releasing the information that I have
written and organized into the public domain. This includes the will images,
my transcriptions of them and the above book. If you would like to acknowledge
that you got it from me, that would be nice. If not, I'm OK with that, too.
If you want to download the images and create your own interpretation of a
will, please do.

I have attempted to faithfully render word-for-word transcriptions. It seems
to me that every single time I read over any one of these, I find errors,
oversights, and typos in my transcription. If (when) you find defects
please send me any corrections. Similarly, if you would like to submit
genealogical information to annotate a transcription, I would be delighted to
supplement the data that is here.